Very nice post Steve. I considered the new thread needed since I've been convinced that Myrrh does not really have Christian themes ;) (and it does deserve it's own thread, just as many other songs, I think).

Given how there's no thread for Heyday as a whole it is fitting to discuss the lyrics of the whole album, BTW, maybe more fitting than adding it to the general thread on the album over at The Feast.
(Despite whatever impression the indexing may cause and my preference for adding to existing threads whenever possible, I actually don't have any objections to starting new threads, or threads wandering off-topic, witness Radiance).
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Interesting that Heyday can be seen as a whole concept album, I think that applies to several Church albums. I'd just point out that Youth Worshipper doesn't seem to belong so well with the rest of the songs.

Paul Hullah's analysis of the lyrics is somewhat hidden inside the Shadow Cabinet, in the "Poetry" page, available from the "Look and Listen" link.

In Myrrh I have always seen the telephone line differently:

We're interrupted by the telephone,
"You didn't think they were invented, then?"


As if someone said that after answering the call, and I wondered who or what were "they" that might have been real and not an invention.

I originally tought of "manifold" being used in the sense of hardware, needed for building a machine, together with the microphones to make miracles of sound. The mathematical sense of manifold could also give rise to interesting departures in the interpretation, some of which I'd think could be related to moving through different but related points in spacetime.